Visual artist Anna Teresa Fernandez, powerfully repaints the Mexican/US border, highlighting not just the ugliness of the fence, but the ugliness of the policies and attitudes that helped to build and create this montrosity in the first place. She confronted the fence by putting on her black dress and painting the sky blue. Unfortunately this ugly wall is still here, as are others like the ones to be seen in Palestine and the West Bank.This border stretches for 1.969 miles, a symbol of oppression, a dividing line between cultures, a physical expression of the contempt for the poor, legislators have. It does not seem to solve problems but adds to the tension and racism and discrimination, but does not hinder peoples need for survival.
Despite it, many still have a furious desire to cross it, with migrants not only facing dangers posed by an unforgiving desert, but also abuse at the hands of US Border guards, risking all, dehydration, starvation and exhaustion, and ultimately for hundreds every year death, trying to succeed. It should be noted that up to 60% of illegal US-Mexican Border crossings, actually succeed.
I personally believe it is time to make all borders disappear.
Link to artists webpage :-
http://anateresafernandez.com/
Borrando La Barda/ Erasing the Border.
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